> The Scouts
> are all doing other things instead of walking around looking for something
> new to talk to. Of course, if the Scouts and others spent more time
> walking, we probably wouldn't still have first contacts going on *within
> the Imperium*. Someone would have tripped over DGP's Sparkle Gators,
> TNE's > Schalli, and CT's Shriekers/Denuli much sooner.
I like that as an in-game rationalization for "some author said, 'I want
to make a new race, and I say they're HERE.'"
> are all doing other things instead of walking around looking for something
> new to talk to. Of course, if the Scouts and others spent more time
> walking, we probably wouldn't still have first contacts going on *within
> the Imperium*. Someone would have tripped over DGP's Sparkle Gators,
> TNE's > Schalli, and CT's Shriekers/Denuli much sooner.
I like that as an in-game rationalization for "some author said, 'I want
to make a new race, and I say they're HERE.'"